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and by contributions to your pbs station from... >> welcome to the program. we begin this evening with amy gutmann, the president of the university of pennsylvania. she talks about compromise in our national politics. her book is called the spirit of compromise. >> the role of the university is to speak truth to power but not be arrogant about it. because politics and business and other areas of life deal with people who have human psychology. and therefore we need to educate people not only about the ideal, the plutonic republic, but we also have to educate people about how you make...

nonfiction has failed us when it comes to north korea. there is a lot of important work being done and the larger themes. the economic realm, the nuclear realm, the military realm, et cetera. but trying to capture the human dimension is something that several writers have struggled with. and in the world of nonfiction there's almost no primary source to turn to. there's no access to the people there. the only thing that people who are writing from nonvision have are satellite photos and the testimony of defectors. so i think that literary fiction is designed to get just that psycholo...

orphan masters son, a novel about north korea. >> i don't want to say that nonfiction has failed us when it comes to north korea. there is a lot of important work being done and the larger themes. the economic realm, the nuclear realm, the military realm, et cetera. but trying to capture the human dimension is something that several writers have struggled with. and in the world of nonfiction there's almost no primary source to turn to. there's no access to the people there. the only thing that people who are writing from nonvision have are satellite photos and the testimony of defect...

nonfiction has failed us when it comes to north korea. there is a lot of important work being done and the larger themes. the economic realm, the nuclear realm, the military realm, et cetera. but trying to capture the human dimension is something that several writers have struggled with. and in the world of nonfiction there's almost no primary source to turn to. there's no access to the people there. the only thing that people who are writing from nonvision have are satellite photos and the testimony of defectors. so i think that literary fiction is designed to get just that psycholo...

harumi takahashi said there's no change at the timetable for bringing fukushima daiichi under control. he ask the goal continues to be processing contaminated wastewater and reducing radioactive emissions before achieving shut down of the reactor. hosono says the government will drop a plan by the end of the august for the decontamination zone around fukushima daiichi. the idea is to lunch a model project early next month. experts say before the government allows displaced residents to return home, they'll be necessary to plug any new radiation leaks. on top of that, they say contami...